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More than just Picture Storybooks. Picture Storybooks are my favourite.

They bring back so many wonderful childhood memories.
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Readingcomprehensiondownloads - Downloads. Reading Australia - Home. Strategies to Help Struggling Writers. It's the day that my first-year college students are sharing the outlines/rough drafts of their final essays with their peers.

Why Picture Books – 5 Reasons Why They Belong in Every Classroom – Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension. I don’t remember when I fell out of love with picture books, but I do remember wondering why any teacher would invest any money in them if they were not teaching young kids.

After all, picture books are so expensive and there is not much to them. No, I would rather invest my money in chapter books, that is where you get the most value. So picture books? Perhaps a few selected mentor texts in my 4th grade classroom.
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English. Supporting staff in implementing a new literacy program. In Designing a whole-school literacy program, Andrew Nicholls discussed the process he undertook when revamping his school's literacy program.

Here, he discusses staff professional development to support it's implementation and the program’s impact on student learning outcomes. After developing a new literacy program at a small rural school, I recognised that, in order for it to achieve success, professional development for staff was critical. So, I designed PD sessions that aimed to engage staff by communicating: The brief – what the Principal wanted and the school needed; The approach – the data I used and the research I based my conclusions on; The solution – what we were going to do to solve the problem.

The PD sessions. Catching up struggling readers. A pilot study has helped struggling youngsters in Australia, with participating students achieving an average reading age gain of 15 months in six months.

Fourteen primary and K-12 schools from Tasmania and New South Wales participated in the Catch Up Literacy study. It involved 59 teachers and teacher aides, as well 148 students from Indigenous and non-Indigenous backgrounds. Tracy Riley, Assistant Director of the program, says the approach was originally developed at Oxford Brookes University in the UK after research suggested roughly seven children in each class in England were failing to achieve national standards in reading. Catch Up, a non-profit organisation, works to address literacy and numeracy difficulties that contribute to underachievement. According to Riley, the interventions have helped over 500 000 struggling learners in the UK. The first three minutes of each session is a prepared reading.

‘[In] the next six minutes, the student reads the book themselves. ...
Primary — Years 3 to 7 « English for the Australian Curriculum. Five media-rich units of work that bring literacy and language learning to a broader and imaginative understanding of our world through literature and inquiry, supported by geography, science and history.

Night and day A unit of work with a literature study focus to explore Dreaming stories and folktales from around the world, alongside the scientific concepts and phenomena of night and day. View unit 1788: Was life the same for everyone? A unit of work in which students explore and create multimodal texts as part of their inquiry into the contact between Australia’s first people and the early settlers. Save one island, save them all A literature-based unit of work with a focus on the discovery of Macquarie Island, its degradation and the battle to restore the ecological balance on the island for future generations.

Including Tier 2 Vocabulary Instruction in Curricular Materials. Vocabulary has long been correlated with reading comprehension.

It makes sense: if students don’t understand the words, how can they be expected to understand the key points of an article, follow the plot of a story, etc.? Unfortunately, many existing instructional materials skip straight to questions testing comprehension without providing a structure for helping students build vocabulary. The vocabulary that is usually emphasized is often discipline-specific, which is important, but will likely appear far less frequently in future texts. In terms of teaching vocabulary, teachers need answers to two overarching questions: “Which words should I teach?”
Use ABC Reading Eggs to teach the 'Super Six' Comprehension strategies. ABC Reading Eggs focuses on the NSW State Curriculum’s ‘Super Six’ comprehension strategies, in a fun and engaging way to help students improve their comprehension skills.

The NSW Department of Education and Training highlight that learning comprehension skills takes a student to a new level of active understanding and insight when responding to, interpreting, analysing and evaluating texts. As students develop their comprehension skills, they strive to process texts beyond the written words to gain big picture understanding. ABC Reading Eggs creates a unique learning environment that encourages students to develop their comprehension skills at their own individual level. Students are more engaged in texts, as they are encouraged to choose books based on their own personal preferences and interests. Furthermore, the diagnostic testing and student management tools enable teachers to place each student at different levels based on their individual abilities. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Topics: Behind the News. Animal EthicsWatch Now WORD PDF Teacher resources for this topic. The treatment of animals is a controversial topic. These stories look at issues such as pig farming, the animal testing debate and the treatment of animals in pet shops.
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Read With Me: 5 Tips to Foster a Love for Reading. "Read along with me: the best is yet to be.